And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it inhaste: it isthe L's passover.For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all thegods of Egypt Iwill executejudgment: Iam the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDExodus12:11^12.

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said,We be all dead men.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus12:33.

Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: hethat believeth shall not make haste.Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 28:16^17.

I shall marry in haste and repeat at leisure. See Congreve 231:1.

-Cabell,James Branch
  Jurgen, ch.26.

   Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure: Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

-Congreve,William
  Sharper to Setter. The Old Bachelor, act 5, sc.1.

   Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

-Congreve,William
  Setter to Sharper. The Old Bachelor, act 5, sc.1.

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

-Cromwell, Oliver
  Last words. Quoted in John Morley Oliver Cromwell (1900), bk.5, ch.10.

An age in her embraces passed, Would seem a winter's day; Where life and light, with envious haste, Are torn and snatched away. But, oh how slowly minutes roll, When absent from her eyes That feed my love, which is my soul, It languishes and dies.

-Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of
'The Mistress', l.1^8 (published1691).

   We are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be gathering gear, to make our voice audible a moment in the derisive silence of eternity, that we forget that one thing, of which these are but the partsönamely, to live.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'WalkingTours'.

Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.

-Whymper, Edward
Scrambles Amongst theAlps.